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I'm too young to remember the olden days. I recall my dad's friend in the late 1960s used to send a Hartlepool football paper to us, with just a band of brown paper 4" wide around it, to qualify for a low rate. My dad's friend used to secrete a hand-written letter inside to get a special rate. Wow, I haven't thought about that for 50 years.

American author Patricia Cornwell claims to have done this to identify Jack the Ripper from a stamp from one of the ripper letters She funded a private investigation to identify Jack and published a book on her idea that he was artist Walter SickertUnfortunately the test could only be Mitochondrial

Many historians discount claims that Sickert is a suspect in the Jack the Ripper Murders. But like so many of the theories that surround the unsolved mystery, believers of a particular theory will go to any length to prove that they are the ones who have finally cracked the case.

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